Genesis Flashback HD (2018) Game Manager

[SonicSpeed99]

Hi, does anyone know why we cannot download box art? The game ROM is a bin file. No spaces, no special characters in the name. After adding the game and clicking on the little google button, a white page pops up. No box art appears. Tried this for several different games. Could use some help.

Thanks!

 

[Danker301090]

Hi, does anyone know why we cannot download box art? The game ROM is a bin file. No spaces, no special characters in the name. After adding the game and clicking on the little google button, a white page pops up. No box art appears. Tried this for several different games. Could use some help.

Thanks!

I think it is do with google changing their code. there is suppose to be a new build soon hopefully appearing but you will have to ask the developer on that.

 

[SonicSpeed99]

I think it is do with google changing their code. there is suppose to be a new build soon hopefully appearing but you will have to ask the developer on that.

Thanks for this. Let's hope it is fixed with the next build. And let's hope the build gets released sooner rather than later!

 

[NemesisMC]

Begging for the update with Scraper, will beta test!

 

[hossbags2]

Does anyone know how to get FM Sound to be enabled on the Genesis Flashback 2018? I am using the custom Genesis Plus GX firmware.

 

[Dinsdale5]

Any word on an update on this project? Still in beta for the update?

 

[SteveWP402]

I see that issue with the bulk tool. I have re-uploaded with a fix. Give that a try now.

I ran mine with the full no-intro romset and it is pretty unstable. As rrifonas said, with the limited RAM in the machine coupled with the fact that as you scroll though each page the menu app will cache each box art image, it quickly becomes unstable to the point of the menu crashing. I've found 350 to be a safe number. Anything over that risks slowing the machine down or crashing it. I may put a warning about this in the game manager app when the library becomes so large.

Would it be possible to increase the number of games by reducing the image size or quality so that they use less memory?

 

[bobpard]

finally got mine out of the box today to set up and load up with games and noticed that the audio on a number of games is very out of sync, earthworm jim and streets of rage 3 are very noticeable, at least a second delay in button press to triggering a sound. I cant imagine there will be any future official firmware updates on this to fix? or does anyone here know of a way to sort? also any news on the game manager auto google images fix?

 

[SteveWP402]

I downloaded a program named Pngyu, it will optimize PNG images. I did a bulk optimization on all of the box covers and the file size for each image was reduced to less than a quarter of it's original size, 44k images were reduced to 9k for example and there is no noticeable difference in quality on any of the covers.

I also went through the index (all-games.ini) and removed all the unnecessary lines, you only need to keep the first 4 lines for each game.

[Gauntlet 4]
File=/rom/Gauntlet4UEAug1993.bin
Platform=Genesis
Sort=Gauntlet 4

With the reduced image sizes and reduced index things are working smoother, I only have around 350 games in it currently but I'm sure I can add a lot more now.

 

[mx99]

This is very interesting.

I have a quick question, is there a way to add Art Box .png files to the "game" folder for .zim archives or do I have to place them in another folder?

When the mame2000 folder is created it says "artwork" in a new folder inside of it (all of this happens after running a .zim game for MAME 2000) but if I place the images there, nothing shows up.

Is there any workaround this? I'm using v2.6 custom firmware btw since the newest one can't seem to run good on my device. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[gorrbaczov]

Hi,

@dcuk7 you work is very much appreciated! Thank you for making our lives so much easier.

I have trouble running Sega CD games. The music in the game parts doesn't play - it's there in the videos, but not during gameplay. I put Sega CD bios files in the rom folder, which I found on emuparadise (sega CD+32x Recommended Bios set)

What am I doing wrong? Is there something else I need to do in order to play the Sega CD games?

 

[Dinsdale5]

Just checking the status of this? Is the Google Search option and boxart still broken on this?

 

[BillyHGamer]

Dcuk7 when I use the game manager and click on the Google icon it don't show up any box art and even when I change the system type to anything how can I fix this

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Dcuk7 when I use the game manager and click on the Google icon it don't show up the box art and when I change the game system for the box art nothing shows up after clicking the Google icon how can I fix this

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Just checking the status of this? Is the Google Search option and boxart still broken on this?

Yes I think it don't work for me

 

[BillyHGamer]

@Stevewp How you supposed to add it to the game manager for the box art after you use pngyu show how to do this please.

 

[spanner]

It looks like @dcuk7 is not around no more, this games Manger could work on all ATGames Flashbacks, the Atari FB 9 and X uses the same UI, so he should of make this a AtGames Universal Game Manager.
To get it to work with Atari FB 9, all it needs is the file .a26 added to the recognised files the Game Manager recognises or a All Files option to see all files.
If you ever come back @dcuk7 Please can you put the Genesis Game Manager on GitHub ...?

 

[tensai103]

Does anyone know why I am getting all these blank 1s, I took a look at my allgames.ini file, and I didn't see anything out of the norm.

 

[tensai103]

I will look at adding better file system support in the next version. There will be a UI change so this will be a good time to implement such features.

You are awesome for making this! I have a great time using this and it makes me love this machine even more.

 

[maxgi76]

hi, congratulations on the job, I'm trying to configure but when I try to search for the boxart the search window remains blank. is there any way to fix?

 

[steven12567]

Hi I've tried using this but when I try to set up I get this pop up (The drive you have selected is not available please choose another drive) any tips anyone???

 

[Crystalszj]

does this works on the flashback 2017 it has no sd cart but u can put games on it with a usb there is a port in there.